Sound Lounge for Tuesday 16 November 2010
Tuesday 16 November 2010
Presented by Robbie Ellis
7:02 - In memoriam Henryk Mikołai Górecki
GÓRECKI: Ad Matrem Op 29
Jadwiga Gadulanka (sop), Polish Chorus & SO of Kraków, Antoni Wit (cond)
Q Disc 97006
Anon. arr. SHORTIS: Polskie Kwiaty
The SMP Ensemble: Olga Gryniewicz, Carol Shortis, Laurence Hughes & Matthew Ellison (voices), Jonathan Berkahn (acc)
(SMP Ensemble - Podróże)
7:21 - New music from Waikanadajing
WHALLEY: Mittsu no Yugo
In Hamilton: Ian Whalley (Max/MSP patches, wind synth), Lara Hall (violin, looper), Hannah Gilmour (spectral beds, rhythm and effects), with Richard Nunns (short taonga pūoro samples)
In Canada: David Larsen (buffalo drum)
In Beijing: Bruce Gremo (shakuhachi)
(Ian Whalley private rec.)
7:33 - Resound
Kenneth Young introduces:
DAVID HAMILTON: Kaleidoscope (1987)
Concertante Ensemble: Stephen Popperwell & Gudrun Scharnke (obs), Alan Gold & Walter Hamer (cls), David Angus & Liam Gill (bsns), Edward Allen & Gregory Hill (hns)
Recorded by Radio New Zealand at a Music Federation concert in the Wellington Opera House, 1988
ROSS HARRIS: String Quartet No 3, Blood Red Roses (2004)
New Zealand String Quartet: Helene Pohl & Douglas Beilman (violins), Gillian Ansell (viola), Rolf Gjelsten (cello)
Recorded by Radio New Zealand at a New Zealand International Arts Festival concert in St Mary of the Angels Church, Wellington, 2006
(Programme 5 of 10 - more details at radionz.co.nz/resound.)
8:02 - 2010 ISCM World New Music Days
Programme 2 of 11: Future of Music?
presented by Fenella Kernebone
CARL VINE: Flute Sonata (arranged for electric guitar, electric bass and drum kit)
ISAAC HAYWARD: Threesome
GIEL VLEGGAAR: Aiming for Ecstasy
JOE MANTON: Shifting Weight Machine Like
The Electric Trio: Joe Manton (elec bass/dir), Pete Drummond (drums), Joseph Littlefield (elec gtr)
(Recorded by ABC Classic FM in the Campbelltown Arts Centre, Greater Sydney)
9:20 - In memoriam Henryk Mikołai Górecki
LUTOSŁAWSKI: Grave
Rafał Kwiatkowski (cello), Strings of the Polish National Radio SO/Antoni Wit
Naxos 8.555763
GÓRECKI: Four Preludes for piano Op 1
Stephen de Pledge (pno)
Landor LAN 287
GÓRECKI: Concerto for harpsichord and strings Op 40
Catherine Perrin (hpschd), I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky
Chandos CHAN 9590
GÓRECKI: Wysla burzycka, bandzie desc (A storm is coming, there will be rain), from Five Kurpian Songs Op 75
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Paul Hillier
Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7391
GÓRECKI: O Domina Nostra Op 55
Sarah Leonard (sop), Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ of Hofkirche, Lucerne)
ECM 1495
Polish composer Henryk Górecki died on Friday 12 November 2010 in a hospital in Katowice, Poland. Born in Czernica in the southern Polish region of Silesia, he made the area his home for essentially all his life, studying and teaching at the Academy of Music in Katowice.
His reputation as a composer was largely obscure until a 1992 release of his Symphony No 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, which he had written in 1975. That recording on Nonesuch Records has sold over 1 million copies, and on release it stayed at the top of the US classical charts for 38 weeks. That very recording will be played tomorrow at 2:00pm on Radio New Zealand Concert, as part of Afternoon Requests.
(Story from Radio New Zealand NewsRadio New Zealand Concert schedule for Wednesday 17 November 2010)
(Photo: AFP.)
10:19 - Icelandic Language Day
LEIFS: Hekla
Schola Cantorum Reykjavík, Iceland SO/En Shao
BIS CD 1030
LEIFS: Helga kviða Hundingsbana (The Lay of Helgi the Hunding-Slayer)
Guðrún Edda Gunnarsdóttir (alto), Finnur Bjarnason (ten), Iceland SO/Hermann Bäumer
BIS CD 1080
NORDAL: Ljósið sanna (The True Light)
Hljómeyki Chamber Choir/Bernharður Wilkinson
Smekkleysa SMK 28
Every year on 16 November, Iceland celebrates "Dagur íslenskrar tungu" (Day of the Icelandic Tongue). The date was chosen for the birthday of Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807-1845), one of Iceland's most celebrated writers.
10:50 - Happy birthday, Mr Hindemith
HINDEMITH: Overture to the Flying Dutchman as played at sight by a second-rate concert orchestra at the village well at 7 o'clock in the morning, for string quartet
Kocian Quartet: Pavel Hůla & Jan Odstrčil (vlns), Zbyněk Paďourek (vla), Václav Bernášek (cello)
Praga PR 250 094
German Composer Paul Hindemith was born in Hanau, near Frankfurt on 16 November 1895.
11:07 - New Music Dreams
GÓRECKI: String Quartet No 3 Op 67, Pieśni Śpiewają ("...songs are sung")
Kronos Quartet: David Harrington & John Sherba (vlns), Hank Dutt (vla), Jeffrey Zeigler (cello)
Nonesuch 7559 79993